Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-12
THE NEW WAITED ~


no Large Knowles Pun,
and In Less Than ~ eona,,
VIII Be Using rur. ws,. Week. By.
Yesterday afternoon a ren.
nhs MINER paid a visit to ' tbs d
water Works for the purpose 'r ~ New CT,
casual survey Of the new mo 81 taking.
in d short time supply the citu wv which viii
quality OF water than it il '''a a w.
The only person about the nov sstt.,
time the Faber pusher Was tb "oft' at d,
engineer who was busily engaas d Vas h,
board roof over the front Of ~. ~ %erseda,,
keep out the elements. Tho ~ 'oisr b
vited to occupy. box in front -, VA. b.
but he declined with thanks 'asbaa.,
his visit there was purely a hu saying ss
and that he had no time to ii. ''n s OF,
neer then enquired his bushes. l%hssps
informed that it was for the nn,1 AID w
amining the colossal Knor,a.ap Of,
Gently put into the building: or Pump \
the ground and the buiIdjmn,, 'ataa'
erected about it. The enginass. psrdsn,,
visitor to follow him, viii i tbe tod Il.
and was taken into n room ms %'l>ito,dSS
snugly ensconced on asolid found1ss. be "a,
almost ready to be turned "'laeN'a sJ
largest Knowles pump in this 'o ssss i,
country. seciaas
This" said the engineer po;0.;
massive iron structure, lis tho ITO IA
tern Knowles pump manufa.."rses arrest b.
the Knowles Improved Dunle, n III
Plunger Pump, ard when runniSv ae
its full capacity, will tbroni ea
gallons of water into w lAt
reservoir, near the Clear Gin d
every minute. Its high pr1ssu,a a' Oh.
inches, steam cylinder, and low o,s.s
inches. steam cylinder. That ~ ptlS
9H inches and has a 24-incb .tr pI'r
vacuum has 8x12x12 pumps a"s
inch condenser: The large pumn IN
with ten pounds OF steam" said r..
demonstrate the sincerity Of hi. sd
he turned on about eight pounds .. se
and the plungers commenced :. :. 'Aa
back and forth. DIV
How much does the wholsth
was asked. "1Ne
IA little more than 40, 900 no,,a
out the side fixtures, which pnaaS l' u.
the beam at 1000 more, maxine With
900 pounds in ALL" O'aG
'Will the well from which von
the city's water stand such an snr
strain AS a thousand gallons ner rno'a''
was then asked. ulaasS
Yes; come with me and l will e,5,,.,
We vent. and in the almost i.nar'
space OF no time found ourselvs .''e'o.
down into a well OF clear, sparkliou, guy
from which a small pump was hu,; h''
gagged extracting the pure fluid. 'N'"'' %
This WELL" said be, is ahon,
five feet deep. twelve feet wide and t'
long. 1t now contains about fifteen Nv. !!
water, but it will have more tbs, =
when we get everything in working W.. VA
That stream pouring in at thu s;d "us
tains about ten miners inches, and I, ~.
about twenty-five inches in all non, ,E ~.
the WE'LL" p'uia 10Y
Where does that side stream y.
from?" '"u
I'VE have two other wells a sbo,t
over there from which we get waite, n.y.
r sunk down into the ground and tr..'
run from the bottom SO that the Vstn.
have easy access to the main wel,n
"How soon do you calculate to bavs,
large Knowles pump throwing wsts, Nv.
the city reservuir?"
III nothing happens to prevent. Va,
be hosting water in about ter days or /,
weeks. Then the people OF Butte Can ho,
OF as hne a water system as any civ /, NJ,
West. Not only the system OF cony-rr,|
water, but the fluid itself is as pure a, 4,
meaning Of the word will imply.
We next turned our attention M
boiler which is to run the big Dunn Al
inquired il it had capacity enough to RI,
such Il large pump.
THAT boiler" said the engineer. i ,
4O-hOrse power one, but Wa are cg;s
have another one just like it. The o.. n
have might do the work. but two viii
the work "A great deal better"
"How about this building, will YOU Ann,
have it fnished?"
THE brickmasons and other mpcis,,
have been pushing the work Of %constructc,
with the utmost alacrity, buttte ineieua.
state Of the weather has someThatinterhr
ed with it's progress during the ysstN
days. To-day the men had tOwtH
after putting in a quarter o; a shit
After looking over the ground naa.
tain if we had overlooked anytAils vi
ventured the assertion t4at we ,ussa
nothing had escaped us.
NO" said he. you have more leMr
garding this enterprise than anyone VIII
has ever been here. There have been TIM
or four reporters here, but none Of tEl
got very much, because we were slng
busy when they came"
After bidding the mar in charg, lib
works good-day, THE MINER man dGr
out through a half-tinished doorway hi
side of the building and made his etas
towards the city in the snow storm,
The new water works are SITUATED abrt
four hundred yards beyond the raIrnt
track, and when finished, the City oil B1s
will have something besides its mine, mill
and smelters to feel proud of. The st+'
mains connecting the reservoir and tn
works were finished ii few days ago, an1E
fore the last OF the present month Bl(a
City will be- using water eycelled in puff!
by no other town in the West.